"So begins Jennifer Howard's CLUTTER, an expansive assessment of our relationship to the things that share and shape our lives. Inspired by the painful two-year process of cleaning out her mother's house in the wake of a devastating physical and emotional collapse, Howard sets her own personal struggle with clutter against a meticulously researched history of just how the developed world came to drown in material goods. With sharp prose and an eye...

With the advice in this book, you can move from a debilitating cycle of pain to a full and rewarding life.